School is done!

So as you can tell…I have just finished my finals!!!!! Well, I finished them yesterday.  God am I happy to be done! This term was crazy for me! I felt like I was on a roller coaster for most of just trying to get things done, and then never ever really being able to do much! 

Tonight is the senior “Tour of Galesburg” it is going to be amazing on so many different levels! I will post pictures don’t you worry!

Do you know what that means though? I have to start looking for applications for graduate. I have to organized about that shit. OH.  I don’t really want to do it though because of all the other associated work that I have to do along with it! 

Last night I watched the movie Dazed and Confused, and well I will write a review of it, but first I have to get my senses back first.  Does anyone know what happened to CCR??? I have been listening to their music so much lately. They have such a great sound! Wow that just made me sound like the Jazz muscian that I am…

Also, Pandora is hiring! WOOT! I wish that I was a CS major. It would be awesome to just sit around do some code, and listen to freak’in awesome music all day. 

 

R&R

I need some.  I want some. I wish that I was Hermione Granger, and had a time stop. Oooh. I would go back to all those times that I have been able to sleep in.  Argh. Bio finals.

Today. Finals. Biology. Advanced Organic. Lab Research. Piano. Piano Lesson. Trombone Lesson.

So yeah. That was my day. Death might better. I am so ready at this point for sleep, but I know that I have like at least 5-6 hours of work that I need to so that I can just catch up. GAH. I do want to sleep tonight. I do. I so so. You have no idea how much I do. SLEEP. 

Anyway, 

I have that all is going well below is a linked to really cool story from PRI’s Studio 360. A radio show that I listen to a whole lot! I really have talked about my love radio on this blog much, but well. I heart radio. 

So, Till at least Sunday. Good bye! and Good Luck!!! 

 

-Patrick! 

Cooling Down.

Wow that last post was therapeutic.

I am going to go and talk to Dean Bailey tomorrow about all of this to see what he has to say especially after I got some encouraging advice from advisor about. I think that some of the things she said to be honest were rude. 

I guess that reason why I am posting this is because I realize that the lost post made me look a little psycho.

I don’t like being psycho.

It doesn’t suit me quite well.

I guess it is because I have good friends too. 

Anger

 GAAHHHH. I am so angry right now! I really wish that I could just punch my advanced organic professor in the face. She can be such a fucking  twat sometimes! Yesterday, I go to give my presenation, and I have it all done up nicely on powerpoint, and then NONE of my pictures show. All the work that I did all week on presenation was fucking worthless because I just basically failed it. I went to ask her about it, and she was like sometimes when technology fails it means that you weren’t prepared enough. Yes, like I am was supposed to know that it wasn’t going to work. I sat and pined away in my room putting in all this fake images just so that they won’t show up and I look like a big fucking daeryll lick  in front of the class!

I am going to fucking punch you in the face!

 

I don’t think that I have ever met someone quite so infuriating in my entire life. The sad thing is that I love her class. I want to be an organic chemist. I do. I have done summer research for the past two freak’in summer, and well I love it. I want to graduate school for it!!!!! GAAAAAAHHHHHHH

 

I am so angry at not just here, but at myself. Why didn’t I check first to make sure that it was going to work, and well then what was I supposed to do. It would have been two late to fix my twenty minute presentation!

If she gives me anything less that a B on the presentation then I will freak out.

 

Organic Presentation

School……….

I am really really ready for it to be over and done with right now. Not forever because well I am thinking of graduate school, but I need it to be done for like the year. Also, I needed it to be done like two weeks ago. I am so ready for my internship to start. You have no idea. This year has been great but I am ready for it to be over and done with. I sometimes wonder why I chose the major that I chose. Today, the told me though that I am still on the right track at least in that arena. I don’t think very many people get a kick out of reading books about Steroids, and the inate details of their inner-works. I do. I know that just means that I am bigger nerd than I am willing to admit.

So next year. I don’t know what to though. Something inside says that I should take a short break from science so that I can focus on some other things that are important in my life like music, and art. I wish that it was an easier decision. I still don’t know what I want to do post-Knox. I mean graduate school is on the list, and it is still pretty high up on that list. I am thinking that I am would like to maybe do that lab  coordinator job for a year. It would give the chance to put some nice things that I could take with me to graduate school. It would give the me the chance to also take some more environmental studies classes which is something that I really want to do. I wish that I would have started exploring this interests a little bit earlier. GAH. I would think about post-bach’in as well because then I would get to take two classes at a time instead of just taking one which is all that I would get to take if was doing the lab coordinator position. 

DECISIONS DECISIONS…

 

Thats all for right now.

Indiana Jones…Rides the Wave to the Finish

While this movie is by now mean reliable or even viable, it is still none the less thrilling with action and adventure. The movie comes forward with a sort of raw power that grabs you in even with the plot holes, and things that we know are just well impossible, ie surviving an atomic blast in the fridge.  Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of  Crystal Skull is great for the mid-size young’ins. I would not really recommend it to the

younger kids. It has a bit to much of the way-bam slam dunk type of action for the little kids, but just the right amount of action the adults. The movie features all the great parts of the past Indiana Jones movies, the crazy Nazi’s (Russians in this movie), the a great adventure, and an awesome dame. The original Mary from the first movie is back again! The movie is so completely over the top that it works. The way that from the start the movie never attempts to hide behind it’s cheesy facade is what makes its work. Some other characters of note is Cate Blanchett playing Irinia Spalko, the sultry russian. Also, we have the great British actor John Hurt playing Mr. Oxley.  The movie is worth a go to in all of its cheesy wonderfulness.   

In other news the end of the term is on its way. This means that finals are coming here too, which to be quite honest is going to be awesome. I don’t think that I have ever been more nervous about a set of finals. I cannot believe that the end of the term is here, and well I just GAHHHH don’t quite what I am thinking about for next year.  I really really want to go the University of Colorado for graduate school, but I wonder if my grades are going to cut it. 

Till Much Later,

Patrick L. Cavins 

 

SPRING! No. Not yet.

 

So, 

 

Spring needs to be here. It is April. I see no reason why the weather should be this shitty. I think that I am going through the like I need the sun more in my life phase where I feel like that it should be sunny and that I should be able to go to Salvation and Army and get a crappy bike and go on a bike or SOMTHING! I just don’t know. Seriously I really don’t

 

Anyqay ( I just typed that wrong, but I am going to keep it)

I started watching this TV show last night with some friends, and in all of it’s ridiculousness it SO funny. I am totally going to need to get the seasons on DVD so that I can watch. I cannot wait for this summer when I will be able to go the movies, and have netflix. I am such a movie nerd when I have the time to do it! hahaha…You have no idea.

So this show a brief history as it has been passed down to me….

It started in the mid-70’s, and it has been going off and on ever since. The show has had like ten different Dr. Who’s. I think that is kind of cool though, like image what it would be like if Friends was like an evolving door of characters…kinda of like ER but better. ISo, 

 

Spring needs to be here. It is April. I see no reason why the weather should be this shitty. I think that I am going through the like I need the sun more in my life phase where I feel like that it should be sunny and that I should be able to go to Salvation and Army and get a crappy bike and go on a bike or SOMTHING! I just don’t know. Seriously I really don’t

 

Anyqay ( I just typed that wrong, but I am going to keep it)

I started watching this TV show last night with some friends, and in all of it’s ridiculousness it SO funny. I am totally going to need to get the seasons on DVD so that I can watch. I cannot wait for this summer when I will be able to go the movies, and have netflix. I am such a movie nerd when I have the time to do it! hahaha…You have no idea.

So this show a brief history as it has been passed down to me….

It started in the mid-70’s, and it has been going off and on ever since. The show has had like ten different Dr. Who’s. I think that is kind of cool though, like image what it would be like if Friends was like an evolving door of characters…kinda of like ER but better.  

Why do I just feel like an ass sometimes?

So, I am have been having this debate lately. I don’t mean that I am just an overt ass, but sometimes I am literally just thinking to myself why the fuck do people act that way. Is that wrong? I wonder sometimes. I feel like that is OK to see people and sometimes think, what did your parents do wrong? Then today I realized soemthing. What if people look a me at see the same because you know, I am who I am. I don’t try to change myself. So, I guess that I am just trying to say that if you don’t like me. I am OK with it. Just don’t sugar-coat it.

Anyway, school is going very good. I have been nothing short of completely unproductive. I just cannot seem to get kick-started this term. I think that it will come, and I think that this term in the end is going to be like one of the best that I have ever had, at least I hope that the term will run smoothly. I am think that next year I am going to try to take only one science class a term, and to keep the rest of the class open for something fun and ridiculously not hard.

I am thinking that I want to take ceramics, and maybe drawing and / or print making. I also want to Development Biology. I want to take a sociology class. I want to Spanish 210. So much fun next year! I cannot wait! It is going to be so much fun…Why!?!?! I am so sick and tired of taking three sceince classes each term for like the last year. I also would like to digital photography. So many classes, and yet so little time! That is the story of my life!!!

I am thinking about going to graduate school? I don’t know though if I want to though. I mean I know that I am going to go. I know that I am going to after one year of work. My debate lies in what I want to go to graduate school for (Devo. Bio. or Organic Chem.) and when do I want to go? Do I want to wait a year or go right after Knox? I mean I only have like 3 months to figure this out…I have to start studying for the GRE.  Very cool.

I want to really see the movie Who’s Afraid of Virginia Walf. I have been listening to something about it on Studio 360. It is cool. At least it sounds cool. I really like Elizabeth Taylor. The film A Cat on Hat Tin is great. I mean they way it looks at southern life is great because the film isn’t demeaning but you watch and you can understand that they just live different. The way that southerners react to a social situation at least during that time period.

Good Luck With Everthing!

Today is National Random Outbursts of Love Day!!! :-)

So today is National Random Outbursts of Love Day!!!

 

So I LOVE YOU!!!!!!

 

Okay. So today was school. I am starting to feel better about, but only internally! I really like my Advanced Organic class. I think that BIO 120 is going to be awesome **smirks widely**.  Tomorrow is the first day of lab, awe are looking at organelles! I think that organelle are cool, but I think that this class and lab is dumb. In general, I think that biology is dumb. I like biologists. I just don’t like their class. I hate when you ask a biologist a question, and then in their responses all of sudden molecules have personality! NO! They don’t. Never will! They just diffuse. Thats all.  I am sorry if that sounds like angry, but thats what it is. Nothing more, and nothing less…

 I have recently started following this blog called “Brand Autopsy” it is great. The guys totally rips on like huge corporations, and other stuff. I think that his point of view is really, and the way the blog is set up is cool too.  

Also, have you ever heard Madonna’s Ray of Light? I heard it today on the radio, and its a pretty cool song. I watching the music video of it on YouTube right now…It is pretty cool. She still looks hot. I don’t care what you say. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFzeDExYPbw

 

Also, I learned that sometimes musics is the only thing that keeps me sane. I seriously have issues sometimes, and then I go to play piano or jazz practice and all of sudden the world looks a whole heck of bluer!! It just seems that at Knox, doom surronds and you have to work way to hard to make it go away sometimes!!

 I like Knox don’t get me wrong! It is a great school, and if you are thinking about a career in science I suggest that you hop on the band-wagon, and apply (www.knox.edu). I don’t know to much about other stuff, but that you better be environmentally conscience or you might die! haha…not really just maybe a little bit. I think that at Knox be a good steward to the environment is on the forefront of alot of different students minds!!

That is all.